More than two dozen lawsuits target Sean 'Diddy' Combs as he sits in jail

Hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs is presently successful national custody awaiting proceedings connected charges of racketeering and enactment trafficking.

His apprehension successful New York came amid a bid of civilian suits alleging intersexual battle and carnal violence, immoderate going backmost to the 1990s.

More than 2 twelve radical person filed lawsuits against the rapper, accusing him of utilizing his power successful the amusement manufacture to bash everything from drugging, assaulting and raping people.

The latest batch of lawsuits see allegations from 2 men who were underage astatine the clip of the alleged intersexual assaults. Both described being hopeful that Mr Combs could assistance jumpstart their careers successful the amusement industry.

The Harlem-born rapper has denied each the allegations, some those laid retired successful lawsuits and successful his national indictment.

Mr Combs, 54, was arrested connected Monday 16 September successful a New York edifice connected charges of racketeering conspiracy, enactment trafficking by unit and proscription for purposes of prostitution.

Federal prosecutors have accused him of "creating a transgression enterprise" successful which helium "abused, threatened, and coerced women and others astir him to fulfil his intersexual desires, support his reputation, and conceal his conduct".

They said Mr Combs had utilized drugs, unit and the powerfulness of his presumption to "lure pistillate victims" into extended enactment acts called "Freak Offs".

They besides revealed they had uncovered firearms, ammunition and much than 1,000 bottles of lubricant during raids connected Mr Combs' homes successful Miami and Los Angeles successful March.

Prosecutors person reportedly been successful interaction with respective witnesses who worked nether Mr Combs and immoderate of the accusers presently suing him, and person near unfastened the anticipation of much charges.

The singer-producer has pleaded not blameworthy to the 3 felony counts against him and his lawyer told reporters helium was a "fighter" who was "not acrophobic of the charges".

Mr Combs is presently being held astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn, a national jailhouse notorious for its unit and mediocre inmate care.

MDC includes an extra-security conception with barracks-style lodging reserved for peculiar detainees, and US media study that Mr Combs is sharing the abstraction with convicted cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

His ineligible squad sought his merchandise pending proceedings due to the fact that of the jail's "horrific" conditions, but prosecutors argued helium posed "a superior formation risk" and Mr Combs has doubly been denied bail.

If convicted, helium faces a condemnation of anyplace from 15 years to beingness successful prison.

Mr Combs' erstwhile on-and-off girlfriend, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura, was archetypal to stroke the whistle connected the self-proclaimed "bad lad for life".

In a suit filed past November, the exemplary and instrumentalist alleged helium had "trapped" her for implicit a decennary successful a "cycle of abuse, violence, and enactment trafficking".

Mr Combs "vehemently" denied the claims. A time aft the suit landed successful court, some parties said they had "amicably" settled the case, though Mr Combs' lawyer said the colony was "in nary mode an admittance of wrongdoing".

But successful May, CNN obtained surveillance footage that showed the entertainer-turned-entrepreneur assaulting Ms Ventura successful a 2016 altercation that is elaborate successful her suit.

Mr Combs yet acknowledged the incidental successful an Instagram video 2 days later, saying helium was "disgusted" by what helium had done.

“My behaviour connected that video is inexcusable. I instrumentality afloat work for my actions," helium said.

At slightest 27 others - including respective men - person since travel guardant with their ain claims. Here are details from immoderate of the cases - galore person included plaintiffs who filed anonymously.

Joi Dickerson-Neal, who said Ms Ventura had inspired her to talk out, alleged Mr Combs had "intentionally drugged" and raped her erstwhile she was a Syracuse University pupil successful 1991, and had made her a unfortunate of revenge porn by filming the battle and showing it to others.

Representatives for Mr Combs blasted the suit arsenic "purely a wealth grab" and person asked for it to beryllium dismissed.

Liza Gardner accused Mr Combs and R&B crooner Aaron Hall of plying her with drinks and past forcing her to person enactment with them against her volition erstwhile she was 16 years old. She besides claimed that Mr Combs had visited her location the adjacent time and choked her until she passed out. Mr Combs' lawyer slammed the claims arsenic "bogus".

The 3 archetypal lawsuits were brought nether New York state's Adult Survivors Act, which granted big victims a one-year model to bring claims against their abusers careless of statutes of limitation.

A pistillate truthful acold identified lone arsenic Jane Doe claimed that Mr Combs, erstwhile Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre and a 3rd idiosyncratic had violently gang-raped her successful a New York City workplace erstwhile she was a 17-year-old precocious schoolhouse student.

A fewer days later, Mr Combs broke his soundlessness connected societal media against "sickening allegations... by individuals looking for a speedy wage day". His attorneys are seeking to disregard the "baseless and time-barred" case. Mr Pierre has meantime called the suit a "tale of fiction".

Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones, a shaper and videographer who worked connected Mr Combs' astir caller album, accused the mogul of moving an amerciable racketeering endeavor successful which helium was forced to procure drugs, solicit enactment workers and portion enactment acts. He besides claimed Mr Combs and histrion Cuba Gooding Jr had groped him without consent.

Grace O'Marcaigh, who worked connected a yacht leased by the Combs household successful 2022, accused the rapper and his son, Christian "King" Combs, of intersexual assault. She blamed them for creating an “environment of debauchery” with suspected enactment workers and apical celebrities aboard.

Crystal McKinney claimed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by Mr Combs pursuing a Men’s Fashion Week lawsuit successful 2003 erstwhile she was 22 years old. She besides said helium had subsequently "blackballed" her successful the modelling world.

April Lampros, who says she met Mr Combs arsenic a pupil astatine New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology successful 1994, elaborate "four terrifying intersexual encounters" done the aboriginal 2000s.

Adria English, a erstwhile adult-film histrion who worked with Mr Combs successful the 2000s, said helium had utilized her arsenic a "sexual pawn for the pleasance and fiscal payment of others” during the “White Parties” helium hosted astatine his homes successful New York and Miami.

Dawn Richards, who erstwhile sang successful 2 Combs-assembled groups including Danity Kane, said she had personally witnessed his unit against Ms Ventura and that helium had threatened her beingness erstwhile she tried to intervene.

Thalia Graves, who is backed by personage lawyer Gloria Allred, claimed Mr Combs and his bodyguard Joseph Sherman had sedated, overpowered and tied her up earlier signaling themselves raping her and aboriginal distributing the enactment tape.

Six anonymous accusers: Six lawsuits were filed connected 14 October by 4 men and 2 women. One of the women accused Mr Combs of raping her astatine a edifice and different suit accused the rapper of ordering a 16-year-old lad to undress erstwhile the teen was talking to him astir breaking into the euphony industry.

Ashley Parham filed a suit connected 15 October claiming that Mr Combs had raped her arsenic "payback" for a remark she made suggesting that helium was liable for the execution of rapper Tupac Shakur. Shakur's execution has ne'er been solved, but a antheral presently connected proceedings for his execution has antecedently claimed that Mr Combs had paid for him to beryllium killed.

Mr Combs' ineligible squad has dismissed the flurry of lawsuits arsenic "clear attempts to garner publicity."

"Mr Combs and his ineligible squad person afloat assurance successful the facts, their ineligible defences, and the integrity of the judicial process," his attorneys said successful a statement, adding: "Mr Combs has ne'er sexually assaulted anyone - big oregon minor, antheral oregon woman.”

Nine much lawsuits were filed anonymously betwixt 20 October and 28 of October. Many of the lawsuits were filed by adults who said they were underage astatine the clip of the alleged intersexual assaults.

Two antheral accusers said successful lawsuits that they were sexually assaulted portion gathering with the mogul astir their careers successful the euphony manufacture portion they were minors.

Several of the lawsuits included details that the incidents happened astatine immoderate of Mr Combs' notorious parties.

Five much anonymous lawsuits were filed against Mr Combs connected 19 November from 3 men and 2 women. The suits centre connected allegations of intersexual battle astatine parties with astatine slightest 2 of them outlining rape accusations against Mr Combs.